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When going to my domain. I also get "{"code":503,"message":"Database is not ready!"}"
- I have restarted the Database, Worker and Redis

This happens when the TCP Proxy (Public access) is disabled, you need an active TCP Proxy for the Database tab on the Railway dashboard to work. That might also be the issue affecting your app.

But I'd recommend that if you are accessing your DB from a server hosted on railway, you make use of the private networking (DATABASE_URL), for public access (outside of railway) you can make use of the DATABASE_PUBLIC_URL env var.

I appreciate the help. However, that didn't seem to do it.

can you check the db logs?

Is there any update on this issue??
I’m facing the same problem: the “Database Connection” widget in the dashboard just keeps spinning forever and never loads. I’ve tried everything, even creating a new variable like DATABASE_URL_PUBLIC, but it doesn’t help.

The logs show no errors at all.

I can connect externally without any issues (psql works fine with the public host/port).

At this point I’m starting to believe it’s a bug in the Railway dashboard view, not in PostgreSQL itself.

I just fixed it, simply adding DATABASE_PUBLIC_URL, the database connection finishes loading... I already had it but I guess there would be something wrong, check it.

DATABASE_PUBLIC_URL = postgresql://${{PGUSER}}:${{POSTGRES_PASSWORD}}@${{RAILWAY_TCP_PROXY_DOMAIN}}:${{RAILWAY_TCP_PROXY_PORT}}/${{PGDATABASE}}

I put the log into ChatGPT and it asked me to update the following fields in the variables for both Primary and Worker. This seemed to work for now. It is weird because I already had this working for weeks and one day it didn't.

DB_TYPE=postgresdb

DB_POSTGRESDB_HOST=your-postgres-service-name.railway.internal

DB_POSTGRESDB_PORT=5432

DB_POSTGRESDB_DATABASE=railway # or your DB name

DB_POSTGRESDB_USER=postgres # or your user

DB_POSTGRESDB_PASSWORD=yourStrongPassword